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The Republican National Committee has picked Michael Steele, a black man from a traditionally Democratic state, to be the new face of the party as the GOP forges a revival following a second straight electoral drubbing.
Steele, a former Maryland lieutenant governor, won the chairmanship Friday after six rounds of voting in which five candidates [...]

The FBI is curtailing its relationship with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), over concerns about the Muslim advocacy group’s ties to Hamas.
The decision comes after CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator at a trial of Hamas fundraisers. The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development was convicted late last year on charges [...]

The Obama administration has asked the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon’s budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent — about $55 billion — a senior U.S. defense official tells FOX News.
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200 top economic minds signed a national ad published in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal against the trillion dollar spending binge proposed by democrats. The ad, sponsored by the Cato Institute, blasts the massive boondoggle that funds liberal projects under the guise of “stimulating” the economy.
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If you’ve run your bank well and don’t need a bailout, pay your chief exec whatever you like. If you haven’t and are now on your knees begging taxpayers for a lifeline, prepare to have your CEO capped at $400,000, the same salary The One gets as president. It won’t mean much in terms of [...]

The White House has acknowledged that former Sen. Tom Daschle, President Obama’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, had “some tax issues,” which, the administration says, have been resolved and shouldn’t bar his confirmation as secretary.
FOX News confirmed that Daschle alerted the Senate Finance Committee, which will oversee his confirmation hearing, [...]

He froze to death — slowly and painfully, authorities say — days after the electric company installed a power-limiting device because of more than $1,000 in unpaid bills.
The old man’s sad end two weeks ago has led to outrage, soul-searching and a resolve never to let something like this happen again.
“There’s got to be a [...]

Illinois senators stripped Gov. Rod Blagojevich of power Thursday in the final act of a political drama that handed the reins of state government to his estranged lieutenant governor, Pat Quinn, and likely will end Blagojevich’s career in politics.
Senators voted unanimously to convict Blagojevich and bar him from holding political office in the state again. [...]

Provisions of the bill that many legislators are questioning:
$1 billion for Amtrak, which hasn’t earned a profit in four decades.
$2 billion to help subsidize child care.
$400 million for research into global warming. (Support for Gore’s new religion)
$2.4 billion for projects to demonstrate how carbon greenhouse gas can be safely removed from [...]

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Three activists stormed an office of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s political party in St Petersburg on Thursday to accuse him of ignoring the plight of ordinary people in the economic slowdown.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people receiving unemployment benefits has reached an all-time record, the government said Thursday, as layoffs spread throughout the economy.
The Labor Department reported that the number of Americans continuing to claim unemployment insurance for the week ending Jan. 17 was a seasonally adjusted 4.78 million, the highest on records [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge denied a request Thursday to keep secret the names of donors to California’s anti-gay marriage initiative, saying the public had a right to know who gave money to state ballot measures.
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So the mainstream media can fully support ‘gay’ marriage, but if you [...]

The chairman of the Senate banking committee claimed Thursday that he would “look at every possible legal means” to recover billions in bonuses to Wall Street executives, after President Obama called the bonuses plain “outrageous.”
The president reacted harshly Thursday to reports that corporate employees got paid more than $18 billion in bonuses last year.
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NEW YORK — Ford Motor Co. on Thursday reiterated its financial health and said it won’t need a bridge loan from the U.S. government. The auto maker said it’s on track to be break even, or be profitable on a pre-tax basis by 2011. For the fourth quarter, Ford said it lost $5.9 billion, or [...]

Mountain 1st, the fastest growing bank in NC…is where you need to bank. Someone told me that they were with another bank, and for years they felt as though they were unwanted. I’ve actually seen this at banks I’ve used in the past as well.
Have you ever felt like some citizens were first in [...]

Obama vowed to change Washington and usher in a new post-partisan era. The the mood music and optics were pitch perfect as he trekked up to the Hill. Republicans praised his gesture, welcomed his sincere demeanour and appreciated his willingness to listen.
Problem was, he wanted only to listen and did not want to act on [...]

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In an interview on Monday with the al-Arabiya television network, Obama hinted at a more friendly approach towards the Islamic Republic.
Ahmadinejad said yesterday that he was waiting patiently to see what the Obama administration would come up with. “We will listen to the statements closely, we will carefully study their actions, and, if there are [...]

The premiers of Russia and China slammed the U.S. economic system in speeches Wednesday, holding it responsible for the global economic crisis.
Both focused on the role of the U.S. dollar, with China’s Premier Wen Jiabao calling for better regulation of major reserve currencies and Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin calling over-reliance on the dollar “dangerous.”
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While the headlines all blare “Russia suspends missile plans in Kaliningrad,” the real news is “Why?”:
Russia has dropped plans to install missiles near Poland after the Obama administration signalled a change in US attitude to the region, a Moscow military official has reportedly said.
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So far there is just one media outlet that dared to report this story on Dear Leader compared to the 9,480 articles that reported the “Bush Beijing locked door.”
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I notice that liberals have not challenged the overall thesis of my rocketing best-seller, “Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and Their Assault on America,” which is that liberals always play the victim in order to advance, win advantages and oppress others.
I guess that would be hard to do when the corrupt Democratic governor of Illinois is [...]